Jan Arabas' experimental monotypes focus on the natural world. She is the recipient of printmaking fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Artist's Foundation and has work in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Public Library, the DeCordova Museum, Purdue University, USC-Chico, and numerous other public and private collections. Jan has a BA in studio art from SUNY Binghamton and a diploma from SMFA Boston. Recently, she traveled to Cambodia as a Fullbright Hays scholar to study Cambodian art. She is a professor at Middlesex Community College.

See her work at: www.janarabas.com

Adria Arch works in paint and mixed media. Her work is represented in many corporate and private collections including the DeCordova Museum, Fidelity Corporation, the Boston Public Library, the Federal Bank of Boston, and Hale and Dorr, LLP.

Adria has taught at numerous venues in the Boston area, including the DeCordova Museum, Montserrat College of Art, and Mass College of Art and Design.

Adria has recently shown at the Danforth Museum and she completed a public wall installation at Lesley University.

She is a member of the Bromfield Gallery in Boston. Adria has been a teacher with the GOLDEN Working Artist Program since July 2010.

See her work at: www.adriaarch.com

Jameson Copp received his B.F.A. at the University of New Hampshire, where he began creating functional ceramics, an interest that developed into an enthusiasm for sculpture. His current work encompasses pottery and clay sculpture, as well as experimentation in a variety of media. He has shown his sculpture in various juried exhibitions around the country from Chicago, IL to Palo Alto, CA, and Savannah, GA. Jameson also teaches ceramic classes and sculpture workshops at Clay Dreaming Pottery Studio in Beverly, MA.

See his work at: www.jamesondaviscopp.com

Born in France, Christiane Corcelle-Lippeveld's career began as a Landscape Designer in Paris. In the United States she studied at the SMFA and other art institutions in Boston and Connecticut. Fascinated by the layering, the richness of the color, the sophistication of the lines, Carborundum collagraph has become Christiane's primary means of artistic expression. Often she cuts, collages, adds object, and sews on to her prints.

Christiane's artwork has been exhibited throughout the Unites States, China, Vietnam, and Peru. Her prints are in private and public collections, including the Boston Public Library, the Art Complex Museum, the Contemporary Art Center, Viet Nam Fine Arts Association, Hanoi, and the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China.

See her work at: www.christiane-corcelle-arts.com

Dolores Cuccovia is an installation artist. She earned her B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a concentration in Art Education and Studio for Interrelated Media. She currently teaches visual art at the Agassiz Baldwin Community and the Maud Morgan Art Center. She has received awards and certificates in art education including the Dorothy Jacobs Platt Prize from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Deborah received her M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and her B.A. from Binghamton University.

She is part of the core faculty in the MFA program at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and also teaches Visual Books there.

She was the curator of exhibits and programs for the New Center for Arts and Culture, Boston for six years. Currently she is involved in independent curatorial projects including the planning of a major, multi-venue exhibit entitled Tenacity of the Book. She exhibits widely, including shows at the William Scott Gallery, Plum Gallery, Jane Deering Gallery, Tufts University Art Gallery, Art Complex Museum, Montserrat College of Art and at G.A.S.P. She was the featured artist in Agni 61, the BU literary magazine.

Deborah's work is in many private and public collections, including Yale University, Wellesley College, Boston Public Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Houghton Library, Harvard University. She has had recent solo exhibitions at the Danforth Museum of Art in 2009 and the Kingston Gallery in 2010.

See her work at: www.deborahdavidson.net

A.J. Farkas is a Boston-based fine arts photographer, focusing on abstract color work about the processes of photography itself. He graduated from Hampshire College with a BA in Film and Social Psychology in 2003, and alternates between teaching photography and freelancing as a filmmaker.

His primary interest is in the correlations between photography and how the human eye/brain processes images. This often requires the mixing of different photographic media (digital and film, modern film and antiquarian photo processes), and even non-photographic media.

You can see his work here: http://www.afarkas.com/current.html

Jackie Feng (b. 1982) grew up in Champaign, Illinois and attended college at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She graduated in 2004 with a BFA in Industrial Design and has been working as a graphic designer in Boston, Massachusetts since then. In 2009, she began studying painting with various local artists in Boston, including Catherine Kehoe and Joel Janowitz, and is a member of the Malden Sketch Group.

Her primary fascination is with the human figure and landscapes, as well as the combination of the two. She finds endless challenge and reward in figuring out how simplified can a painting be, while still conveying all the essential information. She does this is by focusing on beautiful color and value to build forms. Charles Hawthorne's quote, "Beauty in art is the delicious notes of color one, against the other," truly resonates with her.

See her work at: www.jackiefeng.com

Barbara Fletcher holds a BFA from Syracuse University in Commercial Art. She is a sculptor of paper and mixed media materials that reflect the humor she sees all around, particularly in the natural world.

In the mid-1980s, while living in Maine, she completed a commission of fantasy sculpture for famed writer Stephen King. Her art has been shown in numerous galleries and museums, including the DeCordova Museum, the Danforth Museum, and a one person show at the Children's Museum.

For fifteen years Barbara has taught children and adults in her studio, art centers, and after-school programs. She is also honored to have been featured in many books on paper art and paper casting.

Raul Gonzalez teaches at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Brookline Arts Center, the Boston Architectural College, and the Maud Morgan Visual Arts Center. Raul is also an Afterschool and Outback Specialist teacher for the Agassiz Baldwin Community. He is a founding member of the Miracle Five artists collective and has exhibited his work in many galleries including the Bernard Toale Gallery, Space 242, NEGLAA, and the Aidekman Arts Center. With his wife Elaine Bay and under the pseudonym DieRaul, he has designed posters for bands and movies including Mates of State, the Blow, Shepherdess, and many more.

He is the recipient of a Boston Art Award and an Artadia award and is currently preparing for his second solo exhibition at Carrol and Sons. He loves to draw and share his love of art and drawing with people young and old everywhere.

See his work at: http://www.artbyraul.com/

Plein air landscape painting in oils and watercolor are my focus during summers on Deer Isle, Maine, where I have summered since childhood and where I have run the Jill Hoy Gallery since 1986.

In the winter, in my Somerville studio, I paint figurative narratives of a fantasy nature.

My BA is from University of California at Santa Cruz. I received their first, Distinguished Alumni Award this winter.

See her work at: www.jillhoy.com

Recognized as one of Boston’s most talented painters, Jon Imber is also a skilled draughtsman and inspiring teacher.

Joel Janowitz has exhibited widely, with over 30 solo shows. From January to March of this year he participated in a two person exhibition at the Art Institute of Boston.

His work has been collected by numerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and Harvard University's Fogg Museum.

In 2008 he received his third individual Artist's Fellowship from the state of Massachusetts. Other awards and honors include an Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and two artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Janowitz has taught painting and drawing at Wellesley College, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He is currently teaching at the Art Institute of Boston.

Boriana Kantcheva draws on memories and imagination to create compelling narrative images in print and gouache. Boriana received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University joint degree program. For several years she was assistant teaching at the Carpenter Center for Visual and Environmental Studies in Cambridge. She has exhibited her work in Boston and recently in New York City. Boriana is the recipient of several Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in teaching awards.

Mary Kenny was born and raised in Dorchester, MA, the 6th of seven children born to Irish immigrant parents. Mary first learned to knit and sew at her mother's knee but soon left these domestic arts behind to study the classics at Boston Latin Academy. She continued her education at UMass Dartmouth where she received a BFA in Sculpture 1992.

Moving to Los Angeles soon after, she earned an MFA degree from the California Institute of the Arts and later taught woodworking and metalworking at Otis College of Art and Design.

She also worked breifly in the film industry as an extra and a production assistant. It was during her time in LA that she became interested in both costume making and animation. Mary has been able to combine her early skills as a crafter and seamstress with her love of nature and history to create incredibly life-like miniature sculptures of people and animals who inhabit her stop-motion animated videos.

She currently works as the Studio Arts Coordinator in the Department of Visual & Environmental Design at Harvard.

Her sculptures and films have been shown at Harvard University, the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts and at the DeCordova Museum and Scyulpture Park in Lincoln, MA. She was a Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist in 2005.

You can check out some of her work at www.marykennyartist.com and on her youtube channel Makenny1098.

Maria LaCreta is an artist from New England. Maria works in many disciplines and pursued her education in the arts at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, and at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received a BFA in Painting, as well as in Film, Video, and Art & Technology.

She currently teaches courses in both drawing and design in the Design Department at Mount Ida College in Newton, MA. Maria also teaches painting and other art courses at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA. Serving as head of the Art Department at the Charles River Creative Arts Program in Dover, she taught sculpture classes and book arts for several years. She now spends her summers partially traveling, and teaches fine arts courses and culinary arts at the newly formed Summer Arts Program at the Cambridge School of Weston, in Weston, MA.

Maria lives in Lincoln, MA and has held studios and been involved with different art-making communities throughout the Boston area including the Distillery bldg., in So.Boston, the Atlantic Works bldg., in E.Boston, and teaching visual arts and literacy workshops through Cultural Agents at Harvard University.

Kate Ledogar is both an artist and a writer. Her mixed-media oil paintings have been featured in two Boston Young Contemporaries exhibitions, as well as other venues in Boston, Provincetown, and Eastern Long Island. She wrote art criticism for the Weekly Dig from 2004-2006 and is currently working on fiction and picture books for children. She earned an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 2008 and teaches art, in a range of media, to children and adults.

See her work at: www.kateledogar.com

Peter Lipsitt's public work can be found at University Place, Cambridge, the Bajko Rink in Hyde Park, and in Key West, FL. Collections at Brandeis' Rose Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, the DeCordova, and Hamilton College include his work. He is a founding member of Boston Sculptors Gallery where he has had many exhibitions.

The sculptures in Lipsitt's new body of abstract work were cast in cement and plaster, with inclusions of wood and rope, resulting in a textured and organic whole. His solo last spring was funded in part by an Artist's Resource Trust (ART) grant through the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

Lipsitt's degrees are from Brandeis (BA) and, Yale Art School (BFA and MFA). He has taught for many years in various settings, including elementary schools in Brookline and Boston, at Wheaton College, Wentworth, Emmanuel and Brandeis.

See his work at: www.peterlipsitt.com

Mela Lyman has had work in more than 40 exhibitions in museums and galleries nationally and has been reviewed in ARTFORUM, Art New England, and New Art Examiner, among other magazines and newspapers.

Mela Lyman received her BFA from Tufts University and her Diploma from the Museum School. She has won numerous awards: A National Endowment for the Arts Award and several Artists Foundation Awards through Massachusetts Council for the Arts. Her public arts commissions include: “Transported” at the Logan Airport Water Shuttle Terminal, a painted frieze, 4’ x 74”, encircling the upper interior of the 12 sided Gazebo Terminal, a “Swimmer” painting for The Simpkin Swim Center, County of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Calif. ('02); Paine Park Mural, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, Mass. ('02), completed with the artwork of 20 neighborhood children.

In 2009 Mela revisited the mural themes using the Cambridge Arts Council Gallery as her open studio to create an 8’x 20’ painting. The project was called "Anxiety of Beauty: Revisiting the Fountain of Youth," and was permanently installed nine months later in Paine Park.

Mela Lyman teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts; at Tufts University, and has work in many public and private collections.

See her work at: www.melalyman.com

Jesus Matheus is a visual artist and instructor at Urbano Project in Jamaica Plain. He teaches printmaking and drawing, as well as curates the art exhibition with the active involvement of the youth. Prior to joining the Urbano Project. Matheus was an Arts Educator at The Cloud Foundation and Boston Public Library. He brings over 15 years of experience teaching at college and high school level to students of diverse background.

As a professional artist, Matheus has received many nominations and awards in his country of origin and abroad. In 2011, he was a finalist of the Brother Thomas Fellowship, Boston Foundation. He is represented by Cecilia de Torres LTD, NY, ArtSolar Gallery, East Hampton, NY and Artepuy Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.

Matheus holds a BFA from the National School of Fine Arts in Brazil, and an MFA from the Centro de Enseñanza Gráfica at the Consejo Nacional de Cultura in Caracas, Venezuela.

I am a 1996 graduate of the North Bennett Street School Cabinet and Furniture Making Program.

I started my own business "JP custom furniture" in 1997, designing and building high end furniture and custom cabinetry.

I have an art background, studying textile design (weaving) at BU and Mass. College of Art, ceramic and stone carving at The Museum.

In 1987 I moved to Europe, where I continued weaving as well as doing sculpture, mask making, painting and graphic design.

I love working with my hands and sharing my knowledge with others.

Some of my other interests are fishing, hiking and sports. I am a proud parent of a curious 6 year old son and enjoy mentoring youth.

Nancy Merrifield is passionate about art and getting children excited to make things!

She currently teaches several wheel-throwing and hand-building classes at the New Art Center in Newtonville, MA.

She has also taught art and cooking workshops of all kinds for the last 15 years at Showa Boston, a Japanese woman’s college in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Tiffany Playford's education has been through hands-on experience working and teaching at The Ceramic Program sponsored by the Office of the Arts at Harvard. She also apprenticed with Stephanie Young and she has been teaching young potters for the past three years at The New Art Center in Newton. Her work is an exploration of color, form, pattern, and texture, qualities that come together in pots that are sensual and immediately charming.

Nancy Popper is an art educator and printmaker. She earned an undergraduate degree from Bard College, and a graduate degree from Massachusetts College of Art, as well as a certificate in printmaking from the Institute d'Arte in Venice, Italy. Her prints have appeared as illustrations in several publications, including the New Yorker Magazine and the Boston Globe Magazine. She has exhibited locally, most recently in the Women in Print exhibit at Bunker Hill Community College, and 13FOREST Gallery in East Arlington. Her work hangs in numerous private and public collections, including City Hall in Kanazawa, Japan, and the Office of Cultural Affairs in Boston City Hall. She has taught studio art at the Advent School in Boston; Nashoba Brooks School of Concord; the DeCordova Museum; the Arlington Center for the Arts; and the Charles River Creative Arts Program. During the 2006-2007 school year she was Artist in Residence at the Graham and Parks School in Cambridge, MA.

See her work at: www.clickscape.net/nancy/

Wendy Prellwitz maintains multiple careers as an architect, painter. and printmaker. Her images are suffused with the richness of coastal light and atmosphere rooted in her connections to the North Fork of Long Island, Monhegan Island in Maine, and Ireland. Wendy attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She co-founded the architectural firm Prellwitz/Chilinski Associates in 1982, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wendy has received multiple fellowships from the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and a Grant-in-Aid from the St Botolph Foundation.

See her work at: www.wendyprellwitz.com

Alexandra Sheldon lives and works in Cambridge. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Previously a still life and landscape painter, Alexandra began making collages in 1998 and has not stopped since. She enjoys teaching collage and drawing workshops in her Central Square studio as well as in and around Boston.

See her work at: www.alexandrasheldon.com

Julia Talcott is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Arts in Michigan and works as an illustrator, printmaker and printmaking teacher in the greater Boston area. Creator of the 1996 Christmas stamp for the US postal service, she has received 4 certificates of design excellence from Print Magazine. Her work is in private, museum and corporate collections.

See her work at: www.juliatalcott.com

Heather Zeiden is a photographer, book artist, and teacher. She has a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine and an M.A. in Book Arts and Education from Lesley University. She uses photography, collage and words to create her visual memoirs and sculptural book objects. Themes in her work include hybridity, the female body, and insomnia. Her photo work displays ephemera, graffiti, rust and places from her travels.

Heather has taught students at Agassiz Baldwin Community After School and Outback Summer Program, Kesher After School, Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum and the Boston Children's Museum. She has also worked at the Boston Children's Museum in their Teaching Kits Department.

Heather continues to explore her passion for arts education and enjoys teaching through the use of various art modalities.